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An Act of Defiance: Northern Mali Guitar Legend Baba Salah Plays for a Silenced People
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FlipswitchPR, LLC
Malian guitarist Baba Salah comes from the city of Gao, a remote trading hub nestled on the banks of the Niger river, situated at the edge of the Sahara desert. Ethnic Songhai, Tuareg, Fulani and Arabs - among other peoples - all call the city home and as the capital of one of West Africa’s most powerful former empires, it is arguably Mali’s most cosmopolitan city. Almost every facet of Gao is the product of a continuous melding of cultures, ...
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Jazz Returns To Baba Louie's Backroom On Aug. 3, As Pittsfield Program Features Gary Smulyan, Noah Baerman
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Ed Bride Associates
Berkshires Jazz Culminates First Fridays Artswalk With Two Extraordinary Guest Artists As part of its year-round commitment to ‘live’ jazz, Berkshires Jazz has scheduled a double bill on Aug. 3, featuring baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan and pianist Noah Baerman. It will take place in the intimate setting of the backroom at Baba Louie’s Sourdough Pizza, where Berkshires Jazz has instituted a jazz series to follow Pittsfield's monthly “First Fridays Artswalks". The guest artists will be backed by the Berkshires Jazz ...
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Kazuko Baba Trio Releases "ai" on Playscape Recordings
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All About Jazz
The power of love, it would seem, is central to the work of Kazuko Baba, pianist-composer. Above and beyond the reference in the title ("ai" means “love" in Japanese) and the different phases of romance that the composer says spawned each of her tunes, the sublime force is chief among the things required if one is to do as Baba has done in the decade or so since she came under the spell of jazz in her native Japan. Within ...
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